How good a boxing analyst are you, out of 10?

That, however, is not what you said.

So people are using a sliding scale. On top of this, a 10 for one particular poster may not rate a 10 for another. Someone may feel Atlas is a 10 for instance, and rate down from there, whereas someone else may feel he is a 7 and have someone else as a 10. It is a relative scale.

The whole idea of relativity is that it is relative to what you feel and think. Many others would disagree with you. I know that I have read things here about the history of the sport that was far more insightful than what I have read from noted boxing historians. It only follows that there are posters here with great analytical skills who simply don't know the right people to get into that line of work or have a passion elsewhere. They may very well be as good if not better than many analysts we see in the media.

 

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You asked people to rate themselves given the criteria that you laid out which I already quoted. They may very well think they are "there" and "as good as it gets". If you disagree, then that's what you think of them. But that is not what this thread is about. You argument doesn't prove they are overrating themselves, it simply re-states what you have already said. You feel they are overrating themselves. That is relative Decebal, no matter how you slice it. So are the criteria AND the scale for that matter, since they may have an entirely different set designations for each numerical value than you do.

Why are you so adamant that others here self analysis isn't as good as they think it is?

 

Fair enough. But touching on others value of themselves who DIDN'T accuse you of it wasn't the best way to go about it IMO. But that's just my opinion.

For what it's worth, I think some here probably DID do that (underrate themselves purposefully), Fat Joe *cough*, but it didn't cross my mind that you were one of them.

 

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As long as you don't generalize and do the Amsterdam "Cuz I said so it must be right" thing, we're all good. (And we all know he does that, including him) I just don't think what you originally said about others overrating themselves was constructive or helpful in proving that you didn't underrate yourself, or that it was even related to be honest. I don't think you need to prove that anyways.